Leo Corry
Biographic Data
| ID | 175926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Corry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Corry |
| SIGNATURE | CORRY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9688-8168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Israel y covid-19: Cómo Se Escribirá en El Futuro La Historia De La Epidemia en Este País
El presente artículo representa un intento de reflexionar hipotéticamente sobre la manera en que los historiadores de la ciencia escribirán en el futuro sus investigaciones sobre el desarrollo de la pandemia de la covid-19 en Israel, dentro de un contexto que incluye: la crisis política que vivió el país en esos momentos; la historia de las instituciones de salud pública establecidas desde la época de los primeros colonos judíos en Palestina, a p…
Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012)
We mourn the loss of Yehuda Elkana, founding editor of this journal. Setting science in context was a mission of his life. For him this did not mean to relativize and historicize science to the point where it is no longer distinguishable as central to the human quest for knowledge. Rather, an understanding of science as being rooted in social, material, and cultural contexts was for him the key to its central role for solving the problems of huma…
II.6 The Development of the Idea of Proof
Zionist Internationalism through Number Theory: Edmund Landau at the Opening of the Hebrew University in 1925
Argument This article gives the background to a public lecture delivered in Hebrew by Edmund Landau at the opening ceremony of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1925. On the surface, the lecture appears to be a slightly awkward attempt by a distinguished German-Jewish mathematician to popularize a few number-theoretical tidbits. However, quite unexpectedly, what emerges here is Landau's personal blend of Zionism, German nationalism, and the p…
Calculating the Limits of Poetic License: Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
This essay seeks to clarify the role played by poetic license in the triangular relationship involving mathematics, the history of mathematics, and mathematics in fiction. This relationship can be analyzed, in the first place, from the perspective offered by the well-known Aristotelian distinction between "history" and "poetry." It can also be analyzed from the point of view of the kind of language typically used in texts produced in each of thes…
Introduction: Science in Latin-American Contexts – Historical Studies
This issue of Science in Context presents a collection of historical studies on various aspects of science and its practice as developed in Latin-American contexts. Relatively few scholars working in the history of science, and even in the more general field of “science studies,” have devoted their research to this field. Likewise, relatively little research has been done by scholars of Latin American studies on the cultural, political, and socia…
Introduction: The History of Modern Mathematics - Writing and Rewriting
The present issue of Science in Context comprises a collection of articles dealing with various, specific aspects of the history of mathematics during the last third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Like the September issue of 2003 of this journal (Vol. 16, no. 3), which was devoted to the history of ancient mathematics, this collection originated in the aftermath of a meeting held in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem in May 20…
Introducción
El presente número de EIAL contiene un foco temático dedicado a estudios sobre ciencia en Latinoamérica, un campo de investigación que ha atraído relativamente poca atención por parte de los estudiosos del continente, su historia y su cultura. Por definición, el estudio de la ciencia en Latinoamérica se encuentra en la encrucijada de dos campos intelectuales sumamente amplios, cuya conexión entre sí está lejos de ser obvia y natural. Una reflexió…
Mathematiker auf der Flucht vor Hitler: Quellen and Studien zur Emigration einer Wissenschaft. Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Gideon Freudenthal Leaves Science in Context
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The Origins of Eternal Truth in Modern Mathematics: Hilbert to Bourbaki and Beyond
The Argument The belief in the existence of eternal mathematical truth has been part of this science throughout history. Bourbaki, however, introduced an interesting, and rather innovative twist to it, beginning in the mid-1930s. This group of mathematicians advanced the view that mathematics is a science dealing with structures, and that it attains its results through a systematic application of the modern axiomatic method. Like many other mathe…
Kuhnian issues, scientific revolutions and the history of mathematics
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Jorge Borges, Author of the Name of the Rose
Few books have been as quickly and unanimously acclaimed throughout the world as Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose (1983 [1980]). Its most obvious reading-as a detective story-is probably also its most exciting one; throughout the development of the plot, the reader's effort is concentrated on answering one question: Whodunit? But besides the book's value as a fine mystery novel, The Name of the Rose has fostered a brisk commentary industry from the…
Linearity and Reflexivity in the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
The ArgumentRecent studies in the philosophy of mathematics have increasingly stressed the social and historical dimensions of mathematical practice. Although this new emphasis has fathered interesting new perspectives, it has also blurred the distinction between mathematics and other scientific fields. This distinction can be clarified by examining the special interaction of thebodyandimagesof mathematics.Mathematics has an objective, ever-expan…
Linearity and Reflexivity in the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
The ArgumentRecent studies in the philosophy of mathematics have increasingly stressed the social and historical dimensions of mathematical practice. Although this new emphasis has fathered interesting new perspectives, it has also blurred the distinction between mathematics and other scientific fields. This distinction can be clarified by examining the special interaction of thebodyandimagesof mathematics.Mathematics has an objective, ever-expan…
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Introduction: The History of Modern Mathematics - Writing and Rewriting
The present issue of Science in Context comprises a collection of articles dealing with various, specific aspects of the history of mathematics during the last third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Like the September issue of 2003 of this journal (Vol. 16, no. 3), which was devoted to the history of ancient mathematics, this collection originated in the aftermath of a meeting held in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem in May 20…
Linearity and Reflexivity in the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
The ArgumentRecent studies in the philosophy of mathematics have increasingly stressed the social and historical dimensions of mathematical practice. Although this new emphasis has fathered interesting new perspectives, it has also blurred the distinction between mathematics and other scientific fields. This distinction can be clarified by examining the special interaction of thebodyandimagesof mathematics.Mathematics has an objective, ever-expan…
Nicolas Bourbaki and the concept of mathematical structure
Jorge Borges, Author of the Name of the Rose
Few books have been as quickly and unanimously acclaimed throughout the world as Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose (1983 [1980]). Its most obvious reading-as a detective story-is probably also its most exciting one; throughout the development of the plot, the reader's effort is concentrated on answering one question: Whodunit? But besides the book's value as a fine mystery novel, The Name of the Rose has fostered a brisk commentary industry from the…
Kuhnian issues, scientific revolutions and the history of mathematics
The Origins of Eternal Truth in Modern Mathematics: Hilbert to Bourbaki and Beyond
The Argument The belief in the existence of eternal mathematical truth has been part of this science throughout history. Bourbaki, however, introduced an interesting, and rather innovative twist to it, beginning in the mid-1930s. This group of mathematicians advanced the view that mathematics is a science dealing with structures, and that it attains its results through a systematic application of the modern axiomatic method. Like many other mathe…
Gideon Freudenthal Leaves Science in Context
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Mathematiker auf der Flucht vor Hitler: Quellen and Studien zur Emigration einer Wissenschaft. Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Introducción
El presente número de EIAL contiene un foco temático dedicado a estudios sobre ciencia en Latinoamérica, un campo de investigación que ha atraído relativamente poca atención por parte de los estudiosos del continente, su historia y su cultura. Por definición, el estudio de la ciencia en Latinoamérica se encuentra en la encrucijada de dos campos intelectuales sumamente amplios, cuya conexión entre sí está lejos de ser obvia y natural. Una reflexió…
Introduction: The History of Modern Mathematics - Writing and Rewriting
The present issue of Science in Context comprises a collection of articles dealing with various, specific aspects of the history of mathematics during the last third of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. Like the September issue of 2003 of this journal (Vol. 16, no. 3), which was devoted to the history of ancient mathematics, this collection originated in the aftermath of a meeting held in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem in May 20…
Introduction: Science in Latin-American Contexts – Historical Studies
This issue of Science in Context presents a collection of historical studies on various aspects of science and its practice as developed in Latin-American contexts. Relatively few scholars working in the history of science, and even in the more general field of “science studies,” have devoted their research to this field. Likewise, relatively little research has been done by scholars of Latin American studies on the cultural, political, and socia…
Calculating the Limits of Poetic License: Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
This essay seeks to clarify the role played by poetic license in the triangular relationship involving mathematics, the history of mathematics, and mathematics in fiction. This relationship can be analyzed, in the first place, from the perspective offered by the well-known Aristotelian distinction between "history" and "poetry." It can also be analyzed from the point of view of the kind of language typically used in texts produced in each of thes…
II.6 The Development of the Idea of Proof
Zionist Internationalism through Number Theory: Edmund Landau at the Opening of the Hebrew University in 1925
Argument This article gives the background to a public lecture delivered in Hebrew by Edmund Landau at the opening ceremony of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1925. On the surface, the lecture appears to be a slightly awkward attempt by a distinguished German-Jewish mathematician to popularize a few number-theoretical tidbits. However, quite unexpectedly, what emerges here is Landau's personal blend of Zionism, German nationalism, and the p…
Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012)
We mourn the loss of Yehuda Elkana, founding editor of this journal. Setting science in context was a mission of his life. For him this did not mean to relativize and historicize science to the point where it is no longer distinguishable as central to the human quest for knowledge. Rather, an understanding of science as being rooted in social, material, and cultural contexts was for him the key to its central role for solving the problems of huma…
Israel y covid-19: Cómo Se Escribirá en El Futuro La Historia De La Epidemia en Este País
El presente artículo representa un intento de reflexionar hipotéticamente sobre la manera en que los historiadores de la ciencia escribirán en el futuro sus investigaciones sobre el desarrollo de la pandemia de la covid-19 en Israel, dentro de un contexto que incluye: la crisis política que vivió el país en esos momentos; la historia de las instituciones de salud pública establecidas desde la época de los primeros colonos judíos en Palestina, a p…
Philosophy (10 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works)